This comprehensive elective introduces the medical student to preoperative evaluation, intraoperative and postoperative anesthesia management of surgical patients. Emphasis is placed on the principles of anesthesia (general and regional), physiology of various organ systems, anesthetic pharmacology and hemodynamic monitoring. The elective is especially valuabe for students contemplating a career in Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Surgery, or Emergency Medicine.

The medical student works as a member of the anesthesia care team, interacting with staff anesthesiologists and residents.

Hands on technical experience of establishing intravenous access, noninvasive/ invasive hemodynamic monitoring, various airway management and regional anesthesia techniques are taught under close staff supervision. The operating room teaching is supplemented by twice weekly lectures. Students also get an opportunity to go to the Anesthesia Simulation Center and participate in a case with a resident. During their rotation, students do not have any overnight call obligations.

The last week of the rotation can be spent in the subspecialty of the student’s choice; i.e., cardiac, neurosurgery, obstetrics anesthesia or acute pain management.

Enrollment by arrangement only
(contact Marilyn Reiter at 215-955-6161)

(Dr. Wang and Staff)

The student is a member of the pain management team and applies the principles of evaluation of patients with acute and chronic pain syndromes. Time will be spent in the postoperative acute pain service and in the chronic pain clinic. Teaching stresses the need for a complex, multidisciplinary approach to pain problems. The course is useful for students planning a career in anesthesia as well as those who will encounter patients with chronic pain syndromes in family medicine, internal medicine, and surgical practices.

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